Is the United Kingdom’s House of Lords fit for purpose?
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In the 14th century, a cluster of landowners, churchmen, knights, and aristocrats were pulled together in order to form a regulatory body called the House of Commons, and then, just to make all those swanky henchmen and stand-outs feel they'd got a place in the pecking order, they formed the House of Lords!
Today, the House of Lords has around 800 members. That’s more than any other parliamentary chamber in the whole world, apart from China’s National People’s Congress.
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